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Welcome to the NewsLog or Blog of Heiner Benking. A kaleidoscope of insights and impulses collected first in the DaZiBao (Rio) process Seeds of Change Viewsletter of the Club of Budapest since 1995, continually updated ever since. Now available for broader distribution and comments in this blog - enjoy, and come again !
28 Aug 2014 @ 19:44
Highly recommended - parallel to the anual Ambassadors - Botschafterkonferenz 2014 there was the signing of the CHARTA [link] in the Foreign Office and we have since yesterday the 65th of the UN.
Charta der Vielfalt www.charta-der-vielfalt.de/ It is an initiative around diversity management, gender, nationality, orientation, religion, intercultural dimensions, ... [link] - Check: [link] - [link]
The press "signing in" was in the connex of the ambassadors meeting every year. Highly recommended to learn that these people work hard and connect, even without media and the public.
"Besides" we have since yesterday high time in NYC at the High Level exercise at the United NAtions. I can only attend virtually.... Maybe you also want to "attend"?: United Nations @UN Continues today in NYC - #UNNGO2014 Conference - see @UNDPINGO & [link] for updates. pic.twitter.com/DKubKM5eeK
22 Aug 2014 @ 04:18
We saw Bill Gates in US television last week VIDEO: Bill Gates takes ALS Ice Bucket Challenge description[link] and yesterday in Berlin has with ALS- Hilfe ( ALS-Help ) its comming out.
Initiative Hilfe für ALS-kranke Menschen: ALS-Hilfe YouTube-Channel der ALS-Ambulanz:
I am mobile on the way to a press event this morning. We go to the ALS ambulance in Berlin where Dr. Thomas Meyer has pointed out already 10 years ago to Christoph Chlingensief a very courageous patient: Angela Jansen who is invited to come today. My collegue Farah Lenser has founded with Angela Jansen and others little later a German "self-help" association ALS-mobil e.V., where such persons can mingle and communicate, get help and advise to travel or organize their lives.
In the nomination for an Engagement Price [link] by the Association of German Foundations writes Angela exactly about this challenge ! I uploaded here the press-release by the Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen Geben gibt !! and the text by Angela for her nomination:
14 Jul 2014 @ 10:17
ANNOUNCEMENT next Thursday evening in Berlin !
Activation and optimization of organizational potentials
Your organization and teams potentials and talents might be much more than you think. You just need to activate them.
LEONARDO 3.4.5 is a research based expert tool that identifies potentials and talents of individuals inside a working environment. It provides a platform for consultants to facilitate the development of organizational performance.
LEONARDO 3.4.5 facilitators run development workshops for their participant's projects in order to enhance people's understanding of team effectiveness and its relevance in meeting business challenges. [link]
Needs translation:
Team Genius Workshop zur Einführung in Leonardo 3 * 4 * 5 Prof. Dr Christa Muth, Elke Eich, Heiner Benking
INVITATION - EINLADUNG UFA Fabrik, Berlin - Karte 17. Juli 2014, 19:00 - 21:00 Uhr - Nebenraum-Theatersaal
13 Jul 2014 @ 21:54
what days and nights the last 2 weeks - we "celebrate" and share & care, trying to make a differnce by serving not only in "eco-communities" but as elders and sevants...
I just return home after days/weeks 21/7 - what an exposure..... outburned - since only a few times before.... reincarnation again and again as a buttetfly is real labour but has its merrits....
above sre pictures from the ECOVILLAGES Night and 15 Years Ago, celebrating Rio+ 5 or 10, I need to check. This was at the UFA-Fabrik where we gathered around PNW, POOL, and Youth-Leader...
The Butterfly map is a real treasure for me. See the links on in-betweener ***** and PNYV , *****
Returning ftom Belzig:
After the Near Death OPEN SPACE last week **** - I returned from 4 days ECO - VILLAGES: *****
Welcome to the ZEGG Community! - Intentional Community ...
www.zegg.de/en/
It was like a friends & family reunion - what days and nights !! at GEN 2014
[link]
I missed most of 40 years GLOBETROTTERS **** but such is LIFE and I feel anyway ecovillages have more at www.globetrotter.org
Quellen und vertiefendes Material finden Sie unter folgendem Link:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mwz963cdorwukc7/AABzrc1y52a470c4busLIGtZa
we are preparing for LEONARDO 3.4.5. - so check next week - negligence and ignorance in view of the challanges and dilemmas we face since long... [link]More >
6 Jul 2014 @ 04:13
Attending the German Network for NAHTODERFAHRUNG NEAR DEATH STUDIES part of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR NEAR DEATH STUDIES. Top interesting also International presenters and workshops - and an Open Space we facilitate as Open-Forum [link] - Check the Netzwerk page.
A twin "celebration - jubilee" around a church and academy - 40 years near-death research - 10 years Network Near Death.
We are doing here only an event, an Open-Space - check the docu later and come back...
It's Sunday and we are again in a Church, for a "modified OPEN-SPACE" this time in Westfalia, you remember Westaphalian Peace ? Long time ago but needed as after the Medivial Ages.
All in German - sorry ! but maybe next time in Asilomar or at the Mondsee, Salzburg.? Meanwhile check IONS - AIZU (below) and this NEWCIV site.
What I share in sessions? Consciouisness Studies, The Cartographer of Consciousness Brian Hort in OMNI Mag 1980 - check chapter 4 and 5 of this proceedings: Metaphors, Life-Like Agents, Imitation & Embodiment, Analogies. Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents: An International Workshop at University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan, 6-10 April 1998 My presentation had the title: Sharing and Changing Realities with Extra Degrees of Freedom of Movement
Participants are very concerned and somehow very special. With their experiences they are aware of different perspectives, speak about the personal, inner perspective, lets call it the normal experiential perspective, and the perspective from a "high stand" which is not embodied, but real. I feel at home, as this is somehow a "me" and "we" perspective and has positions connected to it ! - so we can communicate about it - share it - negotiate experiences and perceptions. I speak in work-out sessions and in the Lobby about the EYES and Positions and I feel many more people are getting me here, more than in any other community I saw in my travels. Anyone interested to gig deeper? TO SEE WITH OTHER EYES - translation not finalized yet !!
Some participants talk about HUGO KUECKELHAUS as a lot can be visited here at his "home" I also feel very much "at home" description and someone even saw the similarity in appearance between Beuys and Farah Lenser our Moderator, so this really like am appealing, haunted, whole and very special place, with a group of very dedicated, commited and warm, authentic people discussing <>NEAR DEATH Experiences and what you have taken in when returning from - What!? - Where? .... - all this in California in the 60th and 70th... well you get the story... More >
1 Jul 2014 @ 02:03
Snailmail arrived after 6 weeks for getting from Jerusalem to Berlin - maybe swimming with some boat people !? - You see I am getting sarcastic today - as I remember our ANNA LINDH FOUNDATION Mediterranian Project Competition searching for crowd-seed funding: Mediterra
The new book from Yehezkel Dror !! what a great gift and great book ! and it is incredibly cheap ! I wonder why I waited for ships - planes - and snailmail
In this iconoclastic book, Dror argues that humanity cascades through a metamorphosis, driven mainly by science and technology. Radical human enhancement, synthesis of viruses, quasi-intelligent robots and molecular engineering illustrate the emerging quantum leap, as do value changes ranging between mass-killing fanaticisms to human “maturation.” Along with the windfall of opportunities for thriving that the emerging epoch offers, dangers of calamities, including the demise of humanity, require thinking in terms of raison d’humanité, a powerful Global Authority and new modes of human existence. Dror argues that a new approach to political leadership is the key to the future of humanity amidst these monumental changes. Our current political leaders are inadequate: new, avant-garde politicians are required to cope with the fateful challenges that lie ahead. Avant-Garde Politician offers a thorough overview of the changing human condition. The author proposes innovative human survival and thriving imperatives, a Global Humanity Constitutions establishing a decisive global regime, and some radical value changes – including the addition of duties to human rights. He also suggests novel approaches to composing humanity-craft, such as regulating science and technology. And specifies the qualities required from avant-garde politicians together with ways to acquire them. Based on multiple academic disciplines combined with extensive personal experience of the author in “hot corridors” of power worldwide, this book will be of interest to leaders, policy advisors, scholars, scientists, students, and all concerned about the future of humanity.
See the description by the publishers:
I received from Yehezkel as an appetizer which is close to my work and heart, Come back, but maybe check first check Chapter 9 to see some foundationals for me, I like best the story of HG WELLS obout the "COUNTRY OF THE BLIND"....
29 Jun 2014 @ 03:20
A cooperation between Aedes Network Campus Berlin, ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory, and the Tchoban Foundation, Museum for Architectural Drawing, on the occasion of the exhibition opening Lebbeus Woods. ON-LINE.
Deeply moved !! I never heard before about Lebbeus Woods. Listening to the closing panel of his compagnions, scholars and former students was really moving. They subsumed and resonnated and in lived what they saw in him, a real raw-modal, an inspiring teacher and great artist, scholar, philosopher, architect, media and sysgtems "guru" who also seems to enjoyed he was teaching, tutoring, creating and performing. On the panel senior and achieved producers, scholars, tutors, architects, artists, what a great of very special "pupils" celebrating and remembering Lebbeus with a great exhibition. For me it all seemed to like meeting virtually another but also very different Alfred Schinz [link] whom I mentioned as my raw-model, the architect-artist of the exact and fine arts.
Being again with architects and artists after all this policy and environment the last days is really rewarding. Great participants and long talks till very late.... I stongly recommend to check out the programme, the exhibition, the panelists and the funding and performing organizations, movers and chakers.. Kristin Feireiss, Director, ANCB The Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin, Sergei Tchoban, Founder of the Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing, Mark Morris, Director of Exhibitions at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Ithaca/NY
and this film !! „Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture“, by Michael Blackwood (53 min.) I asked if he was around Feyerabend and Schinz .... and a lot of dee delibarations and encounters around media, signs, architecture, arts, drawings and curating... "evolved", I could even talk about "my" supersigns and multi-modal approaches and superstructures/"model assemblages", and all the turns (linguistic, iconic, schematic, "modelic" TURNS and TURFS... [link] THANK YOU - THIS WAS ELEVATING like a couple of birthday parties in the garden, with champaign & more ... I feel Lebbeus would have enjoyed it !!
I STRONGLY RECOMMEND: German Mission to UN @GermanyUN · Jun 27
FM Steinmeier at #Cyberdialogue w/@Podesta44: We must create internet of the people, by the people & for the people. Check Steinmeiers talk ! a lot of public material is available. Check the FOREIGN OFFICE website !: search for: „Ensuring Security and Freedom“ at [link] and www.diplo.de The focus is on: „Big Data, Security and Privacy“ incl. „Economic Innovation“ & „International Cyber Cooperation“. check Twitter #cyberdialogue @AuswaertigesAmt
Exhausting, Important, Thrilling, Productive, ... Deep Deliberations about central issues: Security, Big Data, Intelligence and Surveilance, Big brother and multi-Stakeholder efforts on all levels with professionals from Indutry, Academia, and policy making and Diplomacy. Only US-GERMAN talks, but we need to start somewhere, right? My concern is also to get the dots, issues, .. connected maybe get here for more on collecting, connecting, harnessing, ....
26 Jun 2014 @ 10:34
One of the nuggets of Academic and Research World and its Pragmatic Implementation on all scales and in all sectors, this LEIBNIZ SOCIETY is celebrating today the outgoing and incoming presidents.
but before: lets note: Leibniz Society is a Gemeinschaft, not a Gesellschaft or Genossenschaft ! - Gesellschaft = Society
So there is a subtle but critical difference: a Gemeinschaft can be a collective, a community, alliance, association, communion, companionship, even co-habitations, .... see - we - the COMMONS ... there we are ELINOR OSTROM !! in this blog:http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000166.htm
So as another column in science management beside NATIONAL, Frauenhofer, May-Planck Society, ... Germany tries something perticipatory, bottom-up? An open experiment !! I was happy with a set of unique participants, and so maybe we continue an experiment with such ivory towers and a new tower !? - or really open up !
Ihis is what I feel / proposed we might update for the 25th of GLOBAL CHANGE Challnges with all this "partners": CHALLENGES TO SCIENCE AND POLITICS 1990 [link]
This are the speeches of the presidents: (highly recommended) Karl Ulrich Mayer: [link] and Rede Matthias Kleiner: [link] - (CV): [link]
As we heard yesterday so much about setting examples, leading and extraordinary life, I feel it is time to check how this can be done on societal level, serving community and humankind.
Outstanding scopes and achievements here in the ACADEMY OF ARTS ! [link] in Berlin !! not in the ACADEMY of SCIENCES ! All this has some deeper meaning – this relatively only recently coming to life, getting real and successful brings some promises, and so I hope we can look into real and serving transdisciplinarity which is working not again in limited VERBÜNDEN ! but looking at bigger pictures and frames. The speaches above are very promising so we should really follow such star-high goals…
pls note: we are at the ACADEMY of ARTS - I mean exact and fine arts !!
so we are gathering here not in the Academy of Sciences ! which is BBAW locally founded by Leibniz et.al. - or the National Leopoldina Academy, Halle, but we are in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate !! Pariser Platz !!
We are still having a reception, but maybe check meanwhile a series around Leibniz some years ago. My session was on the Problems of Philosophy: Anschauung und Ausdehnung [link] I also think about the early work by IIASA on transdisciplinarity, I cite “Sectarianism of Science” in my article: Ignorance or Compassion? [link] You might enjoy the book on
Ecological Awareness: Exploring Religion, Ethics and Aesthetics [link]More >
This is Heiner Benking's News Log, a private-public diary presenting events, symposia and happenings in Berlin and elsewhere - my farings, foci, issues and concerns.
PLEASE CONSIDER THIS PERSONAL BLOG an ARTISTIC and PERFORMATIVE MEDIA INTERVENTION !
The Log links to my work and interests and presents issues and special concern of maybe a very small group of "concerned, engaged generalist" - a Global Interest Group (GIG). This needs to be seen in contrast to the ubiquitous Specialized Interest Groups (SIGs), the "scientific" approach to organize subject areas and specialization and standardization and harmonization! of means, nomenclatures, and modes of thinking. My favorite stories in the WHOLENESS SEMINAR include:
BELA BANATHY: "GENESIS
OF GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY" and "IVAN HAVEL: Longing for Unified Knowledge" where a "specialist" runs into the founding session of the early foundations General Systems, mumbling "this is not my field" or where Ivan M. Havel expresses his search for other kinds of knowledge.
As a starter I also recommend to check my MINDPRINT site, where we add the need for HANDPRINTS and MINDPRINTS, as FOOTPRINTS are good to visualize and communicate numbers, densities or consumption per area, but are not sufficient to negotiate and "harmonize" across domains and communicate gains in different cultures, technologies, times,... in short: incompatible but relevant information and our work on dialog, peace, policy-making, and multi-modal, faceted issues and consequences.
What am I? This is a "well-packed" question for which I have not the or a single answer. Some called me an in-betweener, go-getter, facilitator, hub, marvel-hero, trim-tab, bricoleur, bricoleers??? - career designeer, .... Some even "hank" which I disliked or Story which I liked very much !!
I have no single answer as I feel we need to walk the talk and sing and dance Life ! in spectra and fields in multiple embodied spaces.
To nebulous an answer? I am sorry but I do not go for overclaims and oversimplifications, under-complex and over-simplistic approaches with clan-think mindsets about real issues in clear contexts!
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